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61. Supporting Survivors in the LGBTQIA+ Community: How Sahiyo Helped Afiqa Attend the ASEAN Queer Leadership Week
(News & Blog)
In October 2024 I participated in the ASEAN Queer Leadership Week (AQLW), in Bangkok, Thailand, organized by the ASEAN SOGIE Caucus. I represented the End FGC Singapore campaign and was awarded the Sahiyo ...
Created on 06 February 2025
62. Sahiyo research uplifts how intersectionality impacts the movement to end FGM/C this February 6th
(News & Blog)
... to Female Genital Cutting since 2012 and is a co-founder of Sahiyo, an organisation working to end FGC. Saza Faradilla (she/they) is a co-founder of End Female Genital Cutting Singapore, which envisions ...
Created on 06 February 2025
63. Reflecting on the webinar "Youth Advocates Against Female Genital Cutting - A Conversation on Change
(News & Blog)
... and far, with some folks tuning in from the city of Chicago and others from Singapore!  Panelists at the event shared how youth are uniquely positioned to challenge entrenched norms and misconceptions ...
Created on 14 November 2024
64. Upcoming Equality Now media training
(News & Blog)
... practitioners reporting on the prevalence of FGM/C in Asia in an effective way.  The practice of FGM/C has been recorded in Asian countries such as Indonesia, Singapore, Maldives, Malaysia, the Philippines, ...
Created on 08 December 2023
65. Reflecting on A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
... End FGC Singapore volunteer Afiqa (she/they), lawyer, activist, and writer Umme Kulsoon Arif (she/they), and pelvic and gynecologic surgeon Dr. Marci Bowers (she/her).  Oftentimes, LGBTQ+ and non-binary ...
Created on 01 August 2022
66. PRESS RELEASE: Dozens of Survivors of Female Genital Cutting Share Stories on New ‘Voices To End FGM/C’ Website
(News & Blog)
... countries, including the United States, Canada, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Tanzania, Chad, and more. The storytellers represent a range of ages, economic statuses, cultural ...
Created on 29 July 2022
67. A love letter to my mother who cut me
(News & Blog)
... that my story revolves around.  If you’re wondering, the Malay drama in question was the first season of Jeritan Sepi, a Singaporean Malay TV drama from the early 2000s that my mom and I would sit in ...
Created on 31 May 2022
68. A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
...      Afiqa (she/they) is a Malay Muslim gender-nonconforming survivor of FGC in Singapore. They volunteer with End FGC Singapore, a community-led campaign aiming to empower Muslim communities in Singapore ...
Created on 25 May 2022
69. Reflecting on the 'How to Stop The Rising Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Cutting in Asia' webina
(News & Blog)
... religious reasons. In Singapore 20.5% of doctors carry out FGC, 9.4% of which perform FGC on girls before their first birthday. The preferred age for cutting is between 4-6 months.  The backlash Saza ...
Created on 09 February 2022
70. Introducing the Speakers for ‘How to Stop the Rising Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Cutting in Asia’
(News & Blog)
... co-founder of End Female Genital Cutting Singapore (End FGC SG) whose vision is a Singapore where FGC is obsolete. Some of their activities include organising panels on the social, religious and medical ...
Created on 14 January 2022
71. Sahiyo India to host a panel discussion on ‘How to Stop the Rising Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Cutting in Asia’
(News & Blog)
... gender rights activists from India and Singapore who specialise in sexual and reproductive health. The medicalisation of female genital cutting (FGC) is an increasing issue in a number of Asian countries; ...
Created on 03 January 2022
72. A reflection on the medical perspectives on female genital cutting (FGC) webinar
(News & Blog)
By: Amela Tokić On October 9th, 2021, community-led movement End FGC Singapore, which strives to empower Muslim communities in Singapore to end the practice of female genital cutting (FGC), hosted a ...
Created on 14 October 2021
73. Sahiyo in the Media
(News & Blog)
... India’s Bohra  Sahiyo posted on Orchid Project website  Wadi and Aware organize first ever conference on Female Genital Mutilation/Conference in Singapore Journalist opens up about ‘khatna’ among ...
Created on 02 March 2021
74. Survivor Support Resources
(Resources)
... to advocate for an end to all forms of FGM/C in the region. SINGAPORE - AWARE - AWARE works to remove all gender-based barriers so as to allow individuals in Singapore to develop their potential to the ...
Created on 04 December 2020
75. Annual Reports
(News & Blog)
... The program has received sizable number of participants from a diverse range of countries including the United States, India, Singapore and Zimbabwe. #MenToEndFGC, our Male Ally campaign is another one ...
Created on 09 October 2020
76. Launching Global Voices to End FGM/C — An Online Digital Storytelling Workshop
(News & Blog)
... United Kingdom, India, Sweden, Singapore, and Bahrain. “As a survivor of FGC, it is empowering to be able to share my story in my own words, with my own choice of visuals, as opposed to my story being ...
Created on 29 July 2019
77. Tracing the Origins of Female Genital Cutting: How It All started
(News & Blog)
... of the practice in these two countries. In Singapore, the practice prevails due to the regional influence of Shafi Islam on the one hand and a few practicing ethnic Malay population on the other. The practice ...
Created on 21 July 2018
78. FGC Articles & Research in Other Countries
(News & Blog)
... Scale of FGM in Saudi Arabia Surprises Rights Activists FGC in Singapore: Local movement against female genital cutting turns to Ramadan bazaars to advocate its cause  “A Tiny Cut”: Female Circumcision ...
Created on 04 December 2017
79. Our Petition
(News & Blog)
... has also been reported in India, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Maldives, Brunei, Russia (Dagestan), Bangladesh, and Iran and amongst diaspora populations around the world ...
Created on 12 July 2017
80. Invest in ending FGC in Asia: Why Sahiyo and 33 organisations are petitioning the U.N.
(News & Blog)
... Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Maldives, Brunei, Russia (Dagestan), Bangladesh, and Iran. Yet, Asian countries fall outside the scope of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme to Accelerate the Abandonment ...
Created on 02 January 2017